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To: Star Traveler

National Report is an Onion like fake news site:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Report

National Report is a website which posts fictional articles related to world events.[2][3] It is described by Snopes.com as a fake news site,[4] by FactCheck.org as a satirical site[5] and by Caitlin Dewey of the Washington Post as part of a fake-news industry, making profits from “duping gullible Internet users with deceptively newsy headlines.”[6] It is self-described as a “news and political satire web publication” containing “presumably fake news.”[7]

Stories from the National Report have been taken seriously by third parties such as Fox News Channel, and the site drew criticism in October 2014 for running a series of fake stories about Ebola outbreaks in the United States,[8] including the false report that the town of Purdon, Texas, has been quarantined after an outbreak.[9][10] The story led to a traffic spike of two million unique visitors, and although the story was debunked by other websites, the original National Report story received six times as many “shares” on social media sites as the debunking stories did.[8]

The National Report carries a disclaimer identifying its content as satire and fake news,[7] but there was no prominent link to this page until late December 2014.[11][12]


78 posted on 03/27/2015 10:18:29 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: a fool in paradise

I looked all over the website and I could see no indicator on the site of it being a hoax site. I looked for any link saying so and I couldn’t find it. Is there a page they have that says that?


82 posted on 03/27/2015 10:26:52 AM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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